 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 pages
...Mr. Braid's hypnotized subjects — a man so remarkable fur the poverty of his physical development, that he had not for many years ventured to lift a weight of twenty pounds in his ordinary state — take up a quarter of a hundred-weight upon his little finger, and swing it... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1877 - 194 pages
...assurance of easy success, ('it will go up like a feather,') with which he had completely possessed his 'subject's' mind, that Mr. Braid (in my presence)...a weight of twenty pounds, to take up a weight of 28 Ibs. upon his little finger, and swing it round his head, with the greatest apparent ease. Neither... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1877 - 224 pages
...assurance of easy success, ('it will go up like a feather,') with which he had completely possessed his 'subject's' mind, that Mr. Braid (in my presence)...a weight of twenty pounds, to take up a weight of 28 Ibs. upon his little finger, and swing it round his head, with the greatest apparent ease. Neither... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...by several witnesses at the same moment. In such cases as that cited by Dr. Carpenter, of a man who had not for many years ventured to lift a weight of twenty pounds, but who, under a certain influence, took up a weight of 28lb. with his little finger and swung it round... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...by several witnesses at the same moment. In such cases as that cited by Dr. Carpenter, of a man who had not for many years ventured to lift a weight of twenty pounds, but who, under a certain influence, took up a weight of 28lb. with his little finger and swung it round... | |
 | 1894 - 596 pages
...assurance of easy success (it will go up like a feather) with which he had completely possessed his subject's mind, that Mr. Braid (in my presence) enabled...same weight on my little finger to more than half my own height. Trickery in this case was obviously impossible; since, if the subject had been trained... | |
 | Hereward Carrington - 1907 - 478 pages
...example of very much the same thing in his Mesmerism, Spiritualism, etc. (p. 128), stating that, " Braid (in my presence) enabled a man so remarkable...same weight on my little finger to more than half my own height. Trickery in this case was obviously impossible, since, if the subject had been trained... | |
 | 1894 - 522 pages
...assurance of easy success (it will go up like a feather) with which he had completely possessed his subject's mind, that Mr. Braid (in my presence) enabled...same weight on my little finger to more than half my own height. Trickery in this case was obviously impossible; since, if the subject had been trained... | |
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Braid (in my presence) enabled a man so remarkable for the poverty of his physique, that he had not for many years ventured to lift a weight of twenty pounds, to take up a weight of twenty-eight pounds upon his little finger, and swing it around his head,... 